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Have you had zucchini chips? Well, then you probably haven’t experienced how delicately sweet summer squash is when you suck all the water out! Sprinkle on a little salt, and you have nothing but veggie goodness to satisfy your craziest snack-attack. Every gardener lets a few squashes get away from them, it’s a fact of […]

You are enjoying a beautiful, end-of-summer sunset, feet up, laughing with your very best friend, when someone hands you a perfectly chilled, fizzy, purple cocktail. One sip and you are mesmerized. It’s sweet and fruity, yet tangy, and absolutely refreshing. This is your very first shrub. A shrub is a fruit infused vinegar, a Colonial way of […]

OhMyGod, I love bacon. And Tomatoes. And BLTs. But only in August and September when the tomatoes taste like summer sunshine. Everything around here has been hot for months, the garden is pumping, and now is the time to finally make our famous BLT Salad. Joel and I started making this salad about 15 years ago, when we would […]

Summertime is all about fresh-from the garden salads, with vine-ripened cucumbers and tomatoes, and sunshine you can taste. Drizzle a tangy, herby, buttermilk dressing over the top of your veggies, and you will reach late-August nirvana, my friend. If you haven’t worked with buttermilk, now is your chance to experience a little something new and wonderful. Buttermilk […]

School started this week, even though it’s mid-August and still in the upper 90’s. My little sweetie is pulling all-day shifts for the first time as a 1st grader, and I wanted to make her Friday special with her favorite food: pie. I picked a fresh basket of fall-crop raspberries that are just coming on, and found […]

I call this a salad because it has so many yummy, summery veggies, but let’s get real… this is a meal on a chip! When the days are hot and long, no one wants to work very hard on dinner. I cook the corn and assemble everything early in the day, and let the flavors mingle […]

Yesterday was a beautiful, and delicious day in garden class! Our spring veggies are abundant, so it was a perfect time to make spring rolls. Little hands harvested baby lettuce leaves, snow peas, tender asparagus, cilantro and mint. Some kids knew exactly what was coming when I brought out the rice papers, while the rest […]

This is the best time of year for frying up those big, green tomatoes that will never ripen! We still haven’t had our kill frost, and like clockwork, my friends have been reminiscing about my fried green tomatoes. My secret? Bacon fat! I also like to spice up the cornmeal with lots of garlic powder, smoked […]

The summer squash are still abundant, but what do you do with that zucchini that accidentally got giant? Zucchini soup with basil is the perfect answer to too-big squash and a cool autumn evening. This soup can be made vegan with vegetable stock and without the parmesan cheese garnish. This “creamy” soup was a staple […]

Canning tomatoes is the delight of just about every gardener/canner, we dream of having bucket loads of vine ripened tomatoes to put up for the long winter. I have about 10 plant this year, and all of them have just been limping along, barely producing enough to make it feel like summer (it is a […]